I just got off the phone with our oldest daughter who is subbing today for the 5th grade Science teacher. The teacher was kind enough to tell her that the snake is loose somewhere in the room!

It's a corn snake she said...eats rats and mice.

Oh, they're such a beautiful looking creature. I just looked it up.
Let us know if they find it. It's not going to hurt anyone. Might scare them though LOL :icon_wink:

Don't you have snake handlers there who come to your house and get the snakes out for you like we do??? lol

No pet mice in the room too are there?

Good luck to them.

p.s. info. says they're nocturnal

pretty pics on this aussie govt. site.
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/pests/pest...snake_warn.pdf

about a month ago:

Her daughter had a snake for a pet, and it ate goldfish. They would put the
fish in the water dish and the snake would catch them. She didn't know what
kind it was, but she bought it at a pet shop. I always thought snakes ate mice/rats. Never heard the goldfish bit.

Well,they lived in an apartment, and the snake got out. They could not find it.
Then one day not too long after it escaped, they heard screaming below them.
So this gal knocked on the door asking if she could help, and there was the snake who had come down thru a crack where the bathroom pipes all went thru the walls. She offered to remove the snake, but did NOT tell the elderly neighbor lady that it was HERS. She just took it back to her apartment.

I thought it was a funny story, and if you knew this gal, who is usually so quiet, it seemed a bit eccentric. Who would have thought she liked snakes?

Wow, who'd have thought a snake would eat goldfish. Must have been a bit hungry.

That's a funny story. I've also been surprised about some of the pets people I know have kept. I don't like the idea of having a snake as a pet though but then I don't like to see birds in cages either even though I had one for a while, but he was paralized and couldn't fly.

thanks for the link Lara, it is indeed a beautiful snake! My daughter said that this is not the first time this snake has escaped but they decided not to tell the rest of the classes because the last time it happened, everyone freaked. I can't imagin why! LOLOL

I wonder if I should tell her about the goldfish! LOL @ Mrs.D.

LOL how did i miss this? i wonder if they ever found the snake???
When i taught school the person who was across the hall from me had snakes. We're talking probally 10 of them. Some were pretty, some were creepy. I'm ok with them until it comes time to feed them.... theres just somethign about putting a live animal in a cage and letting it get eaten....